5
A black cover with a scratchy five match sticks in the shape of hatch marks on it
Studio album by
Sault
Released5 May 2019 (2019-05-05)
GenreFunk,[1] soul[2]
Length41:48
LanguageEnglish
LabelForever Living Originals
Producer
Sault chronology
5
(2019)		 7
(2019)

5 is the debut studio album from British R&B musical group Sault. The album has been met with positive critical reception.

Critical reception

The editorial staff of AllMusic Guide gave 5 four out of five stars, designating it the "Best of 2019", with reviewer Andy Kellman noting that "the highlights are numerous, equal in quantity to the approaches".[2] In The Guardian, Alexis Petridis reviewed both 5 and 7, giving them each five stars out of five, writing that both are "fantastic, walking an idiosyncratic path that zig-zags between ESG-esque post-punk funk, early 80s boogie and something approaching neo-soul, without ever really fitting into any of those categories or sounding like straightforward homage".[1]

Citing their first two albums, Paste declared Sault one of the 15 new British bands that audiences should listen to in 2020.[3]

Accolades for 5
Issuer Listing Rank
AllMusic Guide Best of 2019 —
Bandcamp[4] The Best Albums of 2019 2

Track listing

  1. "Up All Night" (Dean Josiah Cover and Cleopatra Nikolic) – 4:16
  2. "Don’t Waste My Time" (Cover and Melisa Young) – 3:15
  3. "Foot on Necks" (Cover and Nikolic) – 3:12
  4. "Why Why Why Why Why" (Cover and Nikolic) – 3:59
  5. "Pink Sands" (Cover) – 1:52
  6. "Let Me Go" (Cover and Nikolic) – 3:13
  7. "Masterpiece" (Cover and Nikolic) – 5:45
  8. "Add a Little Bit of SAULT" (Young) – 0:18
  9. "Something’s in the Air" (Cover and Young) – 3:10
  10. "Think About It" (Cover and Young) – 2:48
  11. "Wild Hundreds, Pt. 5" (Cover) – 0:51
  12. "We Are the Sun" (Cover) – 3:56
  13. "Wild Hundreds, Pt. 55" (Cover and Nikolic) – 1:28
  14. "B.A.B.E" (Cover and Nikolic) – 3:45

Chart performance

"Let Me Go" spent one week on the Billboard Mexico Ingles Airplay chart at number 49.[5]

Personnel

Sault

Technical personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Petridis, Alexis (20 December 2019). "Sault: 5 / 7 Review – Intriguing Grooves from a Mystery Funk Machine". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Kellman, Andy. "5 – Sault". AllMusic Guide. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  3. ↑ Manno, Lizzie (19 March 2020). "The 15 New British Acts You Need to Know in 2020". Paste. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Best Albums of 2019: #20–1". Bandcamp. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Sault". Billboard. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
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